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Creditshelf and BNP Paribas AM launch strategic partnership

13th January 2020
Daniel Lanyon

ThinCats heralds “record” 2019 as lending reaches £200m

13th January 2020
Oliver Smith

Christian Faes hands over the CEO reins at LendInvest

Creditshelf ends 2019 with strong Q4

10th January 2020
Daniel Lanyon

Funding Circle launches TV campaign featuring baby singing along to Alice Cooper song

8th January 2020
John Reynolds

Iwoca reports over 1,200 underserved businesses applying for Christmas loans

6th January 2020
Oliver Smith

Iwoca reveals major new office in Leeds

19th December 2019
Oliver Smith

P2P/Marketplace Lending

Ultimate Finance hits record lending to SMEs

14th January 2020
John Reynolds

Pollen Street fund hit by Zopa writedown

7th January 2020
Daniel Lanyon

NN Investment Partners appoints new head of alternative credit

19th December 2019
Daniel Lanyon

LendInvest fund sees 40% growth in assets

18th December 2019
Daniel Lanyon

Pollen Street Capital partners join wealth management board

16th December 2019
Daniel Lanyon

City watchdog bans marketing of speculative mini-bonds to retail investors

26th November 2019
John Reynolds

New marketplace lending fund gears up for launch

14th November 2019
Daniel Lanyon

Alternative Credit

WealthKernel secures £4.5 million Series A investment from ETFS Capital

21st January 2020
Aisling Finn

Sweet rebrand for PensionBee after collecting £750m in assets under management

14th January 2020
Oliver Smith

Nutmeg CEO exits

18th December 2019
Daniel Lanyon

Moneybox shares-for-pensions transfers offer hits £300k of equity in beta trial

2nd December 2019
Daniel Lanyon

US fintech giant Robinhood to take on Hargreaves and Freetrade with UK launch

Wealth Wizards adds retirement planning to its suite

24th October 2019
Oliver Smith

Tiller shutters D2C business to focus on white label strategy

23rd October 2019
Daniel Lanyon

Robo-Advice

Countingup launches web-based version of banking and accounting app

21st January 2020
John Reynolds

SyndicateRoom co-founder’s stealth insurtech startup Rnwl given FCA green light

21st January 2020
Oliver Smith

German rental startup secures €195m funding facility

20th January 2020
John Reynolds

Swedish fintech Tink secures biggest funding round to date

20th January 2020
John Reynolds

Imran Gulamhuseinwala heralds the “significant milestone” of 1m Open Banking customers

20th January 2020
Oliver Smith

ComplyAdvantage picks new joint COO/CFO in Vatsa Narasimha

20th January 2020
Oliver Smith

Flux signs up Papa John’s in digital receipts deal

20th January 2020
Oliver Smith

Fintech

Stealth challenger Vive granted UK banking licence to serve the underbanked

21st January 2020
Oliver Smith

Australian digital bank Volt sets sights on IPO following $70m Series C

20th January 2020
Daniel Lanyon

Open Banking firm adds hedgefund heavyweight and peer as chairman

18th January 2020
Daniel Lanyon

Ex-OakNorth senior executive joins identity verifcation firm

17th January 2020
Daniel Lanyon

Australian digital bank Volt appoints former Starling COO as board advisor

15th January 2020
Oliver Smith

Monzo customers favourite place to shop in 2019 was Marks & Spencer

15th January 2020
John Reynolds

Starling Bank launches in-house business loans up to £250k

13th January 2020
Daniel Lanyon

Challenger Banks

Fintech accounted for 38% of Crowdcube’s funds raised in Q3 2019

11th October 2019
Oliver Smith

Seedrs teases its own “substantially larger” funding round coming in 2020

1st October 2019
Oliver Smith

Seedrs suspends its own shares after entering “advanced stages” of a new funding round

12th August 2019
Oliver Smith

Crowdfunding pioneer Goncalo de Vasconcelos steps down as SyndicateRoom CEO

24th July 2019
Oliver Smith

Investor fintech demand drives record six months for Crowdcube

9th July 2019
Daniel Lanyon

Take Two: Freetrade launches second crowdfunding at higher £43m valuation

25th June 2019
Oliver Smith

Impact investment app Tickr hits 200% of its crowdfunding target

24th June 2019
Oliver Smith

Equity Crowdfunding

Equity Crowdfunding Fintech

Property Partner to outsource client services to Goji

20th December 2019
John Reynolds

Four BrickVest subsidiaries fall into administration

12th November 2019
John Reynolds

Crowdproperty passes £50m lending milestone

30th October 2019
Daniel Lanyon

Habito unveils ‘express’ mortgage cash advances

15th October 2019
Oliver Smith

Property Partner reveals plan for profitability in 2020, but will slash headcount to 7

12th September 2019
Oliver Smith

LendInvest reportedly shelves IPO plans for now

27th August 2019
Oliver Smith

Seedrs secures The House Crowd for £1m crowdfund

23rd August 2019
Oliver Smith

Property

UK SMEs now wait an average of 23 days for late payments

9th December 2019
Oliver Smith

Recruitment lender Sonovate raises £110m from M&G, Dawn Capital and Bebo founders

9th September 2019
Oliver Smith

Banks and credit fund among MarketInvoice Series B investors

21st January 2019
Daniel Lanyon

Fintech factoring firm scoops €10m fundraise

13th November 2018
Ryan Weeks

Italian invoice trading platform CashMe raises €1.5m

4th September 2018
Daniel Lanyon

MarketInvoice strikes strategic deal with Barclays

2nd August 2018
Ryan Weeks

BlueVine bags another $12m from Microsoft and Nationwide

31st July 2018
Ryan Weeks

Invoice Funding

Nodal Labs falls into administration

21st October 2019
Oliver Smith

Exclusive: Staff stage 'coup' at blockchain startup Nodal Labs

4th September 2019
Oliver Smith

Blockchain start-ups raise $23.7bn since 2013

14th August 2019
Daniel Lanyon

The entrepreneur betting Blockchain-powered titans of industry will outperform

17th July 2019
Oliver Smith

Crypto for Earthlings Episode 6: A stable coin?

3rd June 2019
Oliver Smith

Investigators Elliptic get data from Wirex to combat crypto crime

24th May 2019
Oliver Smith

All that glisters is not Bitcoin: Retail investors lost £27m to crypto scams last tax year

21st May 2019
Daniel Lanyon

Crypto and Blockchain

Crypto and Blockchain Fintech

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